Health, Leukemia | featured news

Genetically altering a patient’s immune cells has, for the first time, produced remissions in adults with a deadly type of acute leukemia. In one patient, all trace of the disease vanished in 8 days.

A novel method known as whole genome sequencing focuses on the genes that drive a cancer, not the tissues or organ.

Scientists are reporting the first clear success with a new approach for treating leukemia - turning the patients' own blood cells into assassins that hunt and destroy their cancer cells....

At age 23 and just out of college, Eliot Kohan was diagnosed with leukemia. He was told he had four months to live. He survived. But he and his wife were left with thousands of dollars in medical bills. Their struggles taught them an important lesson in saving money.